When the headline-hungry CT legislature passed Public Act 13-3, and it was signed into law by the stuttering dipshit Gov. Malloy, CT gun owners were legally obligated to take action with regards to any newly-redefined “assault weapons” that were currently in their possession.

Specifically, they were instructed that by 12/31/13, they must either:

Register them with the Department of Public Safety (State Police)

Remove them from CT

Sell them to a licensed dealer (under PA 13-3, long gun transfers were now required to go through a dealer, not just handguns)

Turn them in to the police

or, have them rendered permanently inoperable by a gunsmith

After being recorded, the registration would be returned to the owner. Registered guns would need to be accompanied by the registration certificate whenever they left the house. No certificate = felony.

If you are reading this, it is no surprise to you to know that many gun owners declined to participate in this pre-confiscation scheme.

For those who did participate, the experience was…frustrating. Some citizens submitted one form per magazine & gun, with the intent of burying the DPS in paperwork, Alinsky-style.

One law-abiding citizen submitted his paperwork by mail, postmarked 12/30/13. A month later he received a confirmation that his paperwork was received…but not the processed registration forms.

All through the spring, all summer long, and even into the fall, he left his soon-to-be-registered guns in his safe, afraid to risk taking them to the range without the accompanying forms.

This past week, on 2/6/2015, he received his forms back. Even with less than 20% compliance, it took the DPS more than 13 months to process the paperwork.

How many crimes could have been stopped if the resources used to perpetrate this fraud on the public were used to actually fight crime?

“Bad Boys” doesn’t quite do them justice, these ignorant terrorist cavemen that attacked the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in Paris and killed 12 people and wounded 7 more. It takes a special kind of backwardness for a religion to be born in the Iron Age and yet never progress past the Stone Age, but Islam pulled off that feat.

While I admire the courage of the French writers and artists who published the satirical cartoons, I question their decision to put their safety into the hands of unarmed French gendarmes. That phenomenon baffles me, given the fact that the Parisian officials have ceded control of entire neighborhoods in Paris to muslim gangs. Perhaps “the City of Lights” is just a description of the torches carried by rioting muslims.

France’s strict gun laws are well known (as are the gaping holes in them), and yet this horrible massacre was committed in broad daylight with fully automatic weapons (AK-103‘s I have read, which are a fairly new model). Be sure to throw this fact in the face of any domestic gun grabbers you have to deal with.

But we don’t have a lot of details at this point about how the attack was carried out, or how the victims responded. The fact that all 3 attackers walked away after the attack without obvious injuries would seem to indicate that any defensive counterattack by their victims was not particularly effective. They might have been too shocked to react at all to the attack, thus becoming sitting ducks.

What would you do if this sort of attack was perpetrated at your workplace?

The aftermath of the Darren Wilson grand jury wasn’t a surprise to you was it?

While not discussing the merits of the case, the many clear signs leading up to the announcement all pointed to two conclusions: that a decision not to indict would be forthcoming, and that there would be potentially violent “protests” in Ferguson, MO and many other places. Failing to recognize those signs would be a symptom of willful stupidity or devout liberalism. But I repeat myself.

Some people were shocked by the decision not to indict. Such people would probably express surprise at indoor plumbing and basic arithmetic. But maybe that is a bit too harsh. After all, with a Democrat mayor, Democrat governor, Democrat attorney general and Democrat president all stirring the pot, some liberal stalwarts might have held out hope that the “fix” was in.

Leaving aside the institutional bias of the state against prosecuting agents of that state for crimes, the autopsy results and the video evidence of Mike Brown’s criminal activities is clear, unambiguous and undeniable. Except for Brown’s mom, anyway. That woman needs her t-shirt money, for real. Profiting off the death of a child that you failed to properly raise (and inciting a riot) is a right, isn’t it? I guess yelling “set this place on fire!” in a crowded city isn’t a crime, as it would be in a theater.

While I credit Cooper for his early contributions to training, his lack of real-world experience made me hesitant to take his endless advice at face value.

Also, aside from training, I knew Jeff Cooper was a blowhard, an attention whore, and had a poor track record of picking equipment (Bren Ten, CZ75, etc.). His tortured sentence structure made deciphering his ramblings a tedious chore. And he loved to take credit for things for which he was a mere spectator, rather than a pioneer.

After reading the new issue of Guns & Ammo, we can apparently add “Shit-Talker” and “Sore Loser” to his resume:

Connecticut held its Republican primary for the upcoming election for Governor, to see who would face the embattled Democrat Dannel Malloy in the fall.

It goes without saying that Dan Malloy, the anti-gun, tax-happy, stuttering father of a drug-dealer armed robber has to get booted. He ran Stamford into the ground as mayor, and then did his best to steer the entire state into a fiscal ditch.

But who to choose to oppose Malloy? Businessman (and former Ambassador to Ireland) Tom Foley narrowly lost to Malloy 4 years ago, and was running for the nomination again. His chances are said to be better this time, as Malloy’s reputation has fallen even lower.